Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity . |
| 2 | Often , the tin oxide would be very thinly scattered within the lode and possibly mixed up with other minerals such as quartz , tourmaline and chlorite . |
| 3 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 4 | It includes the latest Purple Airways information , to make sure you do n't get mixed up with Royal flights . |
| 5 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 6 | Our Ronnie 's mixed up in more things than he knows about . ’ |
| 7 | You 've not got mixed up in any fiddles ? ’ |
| 8 | But Hans , tell me , have you been mixed up in any rackets ? ’ |
| 9 | Me brain 's so bloody crinkled up with other things I have n't got time to bloody think about driving . |
| 10 | Profits at the group continue their unbroken rise , adding 6% in the first half to £195m , as improved figures were rung up by all divisions and the dividend was upped a penny to 13.75p . |
| 11 | Traders breaching these rules could be fined up to 60,000 lei ( approximately US$3,180 ) and have profits confiscated . |
| 12 | Under the bill , anyone who falsely accused fruit or vegetables of being tainted with dangerous preservatives or pesticides could be fined up to three times the value of lost product . |
| 13 | On June 19 security forces clashed with some 200 Islamic militants who were reported to have attacked up to 20 shops and homes of Christians in Sanabu . |
| 14 | At its peak , in June , when 12,000 vehicles were employed , one passed along it every fourteen seconds , and it was estimated that the mileage accrued each week along its short fifty miles added up to twenty-five times the earth 's circumference . |
| 15 | The archaeological researcher John Barnatt has recently re-examined alignments , first noted last century , of stone circles onto key peaks on Bodmin Moor in or a wall , and has come up with favourable results . |
| 16 | Full details from Editor : We 'd very much like to hear from others who have come up with profitable solutions to this seasonal problem . |
| 17 | Following the announcement of its pact with StrataCom Inc and Cisco Systems Inc , AT&T Co has come up with sketchy details of the Asynchronous Transfer Mode service it will begin offering early next year . |
| 18 | Armagh Language Centre , based at the local College of Further Education , has come up with two courses in European Studies and English Language . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the philologists , putting together the various clues inside the Kalevala — it is bright , it was forged , it is a kind of mill , it brings luck , it made the sea salt — have come up with innumerable solutions , at once vague and pedantic : the sampo was the Golden Fleece , some fertility-cult object , a Lappish pillar-idol , an allegory of the sky . |
| 20 | As it is , they have two and have come up with various suggestions as to what selectors do their thinking with . |
| 21 | To prevent a messy legal battle , the TODAY casting couch has come up with alternative stars for the role of Liz and seventh husband Larry . |
| 22 | And they 've come up with several suggestions . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've run fifteen variations of that conversation , and every one has come up with different motivations for the Doctor . |
| 24 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 25 | has come up with three sponsors to ‘ underwrite ’ half the costs of the show ( £200,000 ) Silhouette Eyewear , Vistech Redab property developers , and The Times and hope that a box office success will make up the balance . |
| 26 | In addition , IDC has come up with some projections that indicate not everybody is buying the hype . |
| 27 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 28 | For mums who want something more convenient than hanks of cotton wool , Púr has come up with Little Tearaways , sheets of flat , highly absorbent 100% cotton wool . |
| 29 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 30 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |